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There
is a daunting amount of research studies showing that the widely acclaimed
benefits on fluoride dental health are more imagined than real. My main
concern however, is the effect of sustained fluoride intake on general
health. Again, there is a huge body of research literature on this subject,
freely available and in the public domain.
But
this body of work was not considered by the York Review when their remit was
changed from "Studies of the effects of fluoride on health" to
"Studies on the effects of fluoridated water on health." It is
clearly evident that it was not considered by the BMA (Britsh Medical
Association), British Dental Association (BDA), BFS (British Fluoridation
Society) and FPHM, (Faculty for Public Health and Medicine) since they all
insist, as in the briefing paper to Members of Parliament - that fluoridation
is safe and non-injurious to health.
This
is a public disgrace, I will now show by reviewing the damaging effects of
fluoridation, with special reference to thyroid illness.
It has
been known since the latter part of the 19th century that certain
communities, notably in Argentina, India and Turkey were chronically ill,
with premature ageing, arthritis, mental retardation, and infertility; and
high levels of natural fluorides in the water were responsible. Not only was
it clear that the fluoride was having a general effect on the health of the
community, but in the early 1920s Goldemberg, working in Argentina showed
that fluoride was displacing iodine; thus compounding the damage and
rendering the community also hypothyroid from iodine deficiency.
Highly
damaging to the thyroid gland
This
was the basis of the research in the 1930s of May, Litzka, Gorlitzer von
Mundy, who used fluoride preparations to treat over-active thyroid illness.
Their patients either drank fluoridated water, swallowed fluoride pills or
were bathed in fluoridated bath water; and their thyroid function was as a
result, greatly depressed. The use in 1937 of fluorotyrosine for this purpose
showed how effective this treatment was; but the effectiveness was difficult
to predict and many patients suffered total thyroid loss. So it was given a
new role and received a new name, Pardinon. It was marketed not for
over-active thyroid disease but as a pesticide. (Note the manufacturer of fluorotyrosine
was IG Farben who also made sarin, a gas used in World War II).
This
bit of history illustrates the fact that fluorides are dangerous in general
and in particular highly damaging to the thyroid gland, a matter to which I
shall return shortly. While it is unlikely that it will be disputed that
fluorides are toxic - let us be reminded that they are Schedule 2 Poisons
under the Poisons Act 1972, the matter in dispute is the level of toxicity
attributable to given amounts; in today's context the degree of damage caused
by given concentrations in the water supply. While admitting its toxicity,
proponents rely on the fact that it is diluted and therefore, it is claimed,
unlikely to have deleterious effects.
They
could not be more mistaken
It
seems to me that we must be aware of how fluoride does its damage. It is an
enzyme poison. Enzymes are complex protein compounds that vastly speed up
biological chemical reactions while themselves remaining unchanged. As we
speak, there occurs in all of us a vast multitude of these reactions to
maintain life and produce the energy to sustain it. The chains of amino acids
that make up these complex proteins are linked by simple compounds called
amides; and it is with these that fluorine molecules react, splitting and
distorting them, thus damaging the enzymes and their activity. Let it be said
at once, this effect can occur at extraordinary low concentrations; even
lower than the one part per million which is the dilution proposed for
fluoridation in our water supply.
The
body can only eliminate half
Moreover,
fluorides are cumulative and build up steadily with ingestion of fluoride
from all sources, which include not just water but the air we breathe and the
food we eat. The use of fluoride toothpaste in dental hygiene and the coating
of teeth are further sources of substantial levels of fluoride intake. The
body can only eliminate half of the total intake, which means that the older
you are the more fluoride will have accumulated in your body. Inevitably this
means the ageing population is particularly targeted. And even worse for the
very young there is a major element of risk in baby formula made with
fluoridated water. The extreme sensitivity of the very young to fluoride
toxicity makes this unacceptable. Since there are so many sources of fluoride
in our everyday living, it will prove impossible to maintain an average level
of 1ppm as is suggested.
What
is the result of these toxic effects?
First
the immune system. The distortion of protein structure causes the immune
proteins to fail to recognise body proteins, and so instigate an attack on
them, which is Autoimmune Disease. Autoimmune diseases constitute a body of
disease processes troubling many thousands of people: Rheumatoid Arthritis,
Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, Asthma and Systemic Sclerosis are examples; but
in my particular context today, thyroid antibodies will be produced which
will cause Thyroiditis resulting in the common hypothyroid disease,
Hashimoto's Disease and the hyperthyroidism of Graves' Disease.
Musculo
Skeletal damage results further from the enzyme toxic effect; the collagen
tissue of which muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones are made, is damaged.
Rheumatoid illness, osteoporosis and deformation of bones inevitably follow.
This toxic effect extends to the ameloblasts making tooth enamel, which is
consequently weakened and then made brittle; and its visible appearance is,
of course, dental fluorosis.
The
enzyme poison effect extends to our genes; DNA cannot repair itself, and
chromosomes are damaged. Work at the University of Missouri showed genital
damage, targeting ovaries and testes. Also affected is inter uterine growth
and development of the foetus, especially the nervous system. Increased
incidence of Down's Syndrome has been documented.
Fluorides
are mutagenic. That is, they can cause the uncontrolled proliferation of
cells we call cancer. This applies to cancer anywhere in the body; but bones
are particularly picked out. The incidence of osteosarcoma in a study
reporting in 1991 showed an unbelievable 50% increase. A report in 1955 in
the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 400% increase in cancer of the
thyroid in San Francisco during the period their water was fluoridated.
My
particular concern is the effect of fluorides on the thyroid gland
Perhaps
I may remind you about thyroid disease. The thyroid gland produces hormones
which control our metabolism - the rate at which we burn our fuel. Deficiency
is relatively common, much more than is generally accepted by many medical
authorities: a figure of 1:4 or 1:3 by mid life is more likely. The illness
is insidious in its onset and progression. People become tired, cold,
overweight, depressed, constipated; they suffer arthritis, hair loss, infertility,
atherosclerosis and chronic illness. Sadly, it is poorly diagnosed and poorly
managed by very many doctors in this country.
What
concerns me so deeply is that in concentrations as low as 1ppm, fluorides
damage the thyroid system on 4 levels.
1. The
enzyme manufacture of thyroid hormones within the thyroid gland itself. The
process by which iodine is attached to the amino acid tyrosine and converted
to the two significant thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and liothyronine
(T3), is slowed.
2. The
stimulation of certain G proteins from the toxic effect of fluoride (whose
function is to govern uptake of substances into each of the cells of the
body), has the effect of switching off the uptake into the cell of the active
thyroid hormone.
3. The
thyroid control mechanism is compromised. The thyroid stimulating hormone
output from the pituitary gland is inhibited by fluoride, thus reducing
thyroid output of thyroid hormones.
4.
Fluoride competes for the receptor sites on the thyroid gland which respond
to the thyroid stimulating hormone; so that less of this hormone reaches the
thyroid gland and so less thyroid hormone is manufactured.
These
damaging effects, all of which occur with small concentrations of fluoride,
have obvious and easily identifiable effects on thyroid status. The running
down of thyroid hormone means a slow slide into hypothyroidism. Already the
incidence of hypothyroidism is increasing as a result of other environmental
toxins and pollutions together with wide spread nutritional deficiencies.
141
million Europeans are at risk
One
further factor should give us deep anxiety. Professor Hume of Dundee, in his
paper given earlier this year to the Novartis Foundation, pointed out that
iodine deficiency is growing worldwide. There are 141 million Europeans are
at risk; only 5 European countries are iodine sufficient. UK now falls into
the marginal and focal category. Professor Hume recently produced figures to
show that 40% of pregnant women in the Tayside region of Scotland were
deficient by at least half of the iodine required for a normal pregnancy. A
relatively high level of missing, decayed, filled teeth was noted in this
non-fluoridated area, suggesting that the iodine deficiency was causing early
hypothyroidism which interferes with the health of teeth. Dare one speculate
on the result of now fluoridating the water?
Displaces
iodine in the body
These
figures would be worrying enough, since they mean that iodine deficiency,
which results in hypothyroidism (thyroid hormone cannot be manufactured
without iodine) is likely to affect huge numbers of people. What makes it
infinitely worse, is that fluorine, being a halogen (chemically related to
iodine), but very much more active, displaces iodine. So that the uptake of
iodine is compromised by the ejection, as it were, of the iodine by fluorine.
To condemn the entire population, already having marginal levels of iodine,
to inevitable progressive failure of their thyroid system by fluoridating the
water, borders on criminal lunacy.
I
would like to place a scenario in front of those colleagues who favour
fluoridation. A new pill is marketed. Some trials not all together
satisfactory, nevertheless, show a striking improvement in dental caries.
Unfortunately, it has been found to be thyrotoxic, mutagenic,
immunosuppressive, cause arthritis and infertility in comparatively small
doses over a relatively short period of time.
Do you
think it should be marketed?
Fluoridation
of the nation's water supply will do little for our dental health; but will
have catastrophic effects on our general health. We cannot, must not, dare
not, subject our nation to this appalling risk.
Dr
Barry Durrant-Peatfield
obtained
his Medical degrees in 1960 at Guy's Hospital London. He left the NHS in 1980
to specialise in thyroid illnesses drawing inspiration from the work of
infamous Dr Broda Barnes, at the Foundation that bears his name, Connecticut,
USA. He has been a medical practitioner for over forty years specialising in
metabolic disorders during which time he became a leading authority in the UK
for thyroid and adrenal management. For over twenty years he also ran a
successful private clinic and became a nation-wide leading authority on
thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, but clashed with establishment medicine in
the management of thyroid illness. He is the author of The Great Thyroid
Scandal (see opposite page), he currently lectures at nutritional colleges in
London as well as conducting his own teaching seminars. Barry will shortly be
opening a diagnostic clinic in the UK for thyroid and adrenal disorders where
he will provide advice on diagnosis and treatment with special interests in
nutritional aspects. For further information contact: Dr B Durrant- Peatfield
36A High St, Mersham, Redhill Surrey, RH1 3EA.
Tel:
44 (0)1737 215462 <mailto:Email: info@drpeatfield.com>Email:
info@drpeatfield.com
Web
site: http://www.drpeatfield.com
References:
L
Goldemberg - La Semana Med 28:628 (1921) - cited in Wilson RH, DeEds F
-"The Synergistic Action Of Thyroid On Fluoride Toxicity"
Endocrinology 26:851 (1940).
G
Litzka - "Die experimentellen Grundlagen der Behandlung des Morbus
Basedow und der Hyperthyreose mittels Fluortyrosin"
Med
Wochenschr 63:1037-1040 (1937) (discusses the basis of the use of fluorides
in anti-thyroid medication, documents activity on liver, inhibition of
glycolysis, etc.).
W May
- "Behandlung der Hypothyreosen einschlieblich des schweren genuinen
Morbus Basedow mit Fluor" Klin Wochenschr 16: 562 - 564 (1937).
Sarin:
(GB: isopropyl methylphosono-fluoridate) is a colorless, odorless volatile
liquid, soluble in water, first synthesized at IG Farben in 1938. It kills
mainly through inhalation.
Cyclosarin
(GF) and Thiosarin are variants. Pennsylvania Department of Health
http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=171&q=233740
Sarin:
(GB: CH3-P(=O)(-F)(-OCH(CH3)2)
Source:
A FOA Briefing Book on Chemical Weapons
http://www.opcw.org/resp/html/nerve.html Gerhard Schrader, a chemist at IG
Farben, was given the task of developing a pesticide. Two years later a
phosphorus compound with extremely high toxicity was produced for the first
time.
IG
Farben: "...the board of American IG Farben had three directors from the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most influential of the various Federal
Reserve Banks. American IG Farben. also had interlocks with Standard Oil of
New Jersey, Ford Motor Company, Bank of Manhattan (later to become the Chase
Manhattan Bank), and AEG. (German General Electric) Source: Moody's Manual of
Investments; 1930, page 2149."
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_02.htm
At a
later date, Namaste will be publishing a more in-depth article outlining the
devastating affects that fluoride, aspartame and MSG have on the endocrine
system.
Dr
Durrant-Peatfield wiill be answering frequently asked questions on thyroid
illness in Namaste's next issue. Send your questions to us preferably by
email
to: info@namastepublishing.co.uk
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